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Taxonomy
Plesiosminthus barsboldi was named by Daxner-Höck and Wu (2003). Its type specimen is NHMW2001z 0066/0002/1, a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Unkheltseg, UNCH-A/3, which is in a Miocene terrestrial siltstone/claystone in the Loh Formation of Mongolia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2003 | Plesiosminthus barsboldi Daxner-Höck and Wu |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Plesiosminthus barsboldi Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.03000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Mongolia | Plesiosminthus barsboldi (type locality: 180965 180966 180967 180976 182136) |